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Introducing... Yoon Suk-Yeol

The new ‘anti-politics’ president of South Korea.

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A woman and child at a railway station in Uzghorrod in western Ukraine, near the Slovak border. Slovakians, along with the people of other neighbouring countries, have worked with Ukrainian activists to organize humanitarian convoys. Photo: Isabelle Merminod

Kyiv despatch

Report from Ukraine by Bennett Murray.

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The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season exhausted the designated 21-name list of storm names, the third time this has happened and the second such season in a row after 2020. The total damage was estimated at over $80 billion. Images of hurricane Bill and hurricane Nicholas by Theaustinman using a Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0; Hurricane Ida by NOAA (Public Domain); All others by NASA (Public Domain).

Is it too late?

As climate change stretches human fragility towards breaking point, should we be preparing for societal collapse? This is the existential question behind ‘deep adaptation’, a theory that is rapidly gaining adherents. Richard Swift assesses how far, if anywhere, it will take us and what better paths we could go down.

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Please continue to not sponsor this child

It’s been 40 years since New Internationalist sounded the alarm on child sponsorship. But today thousands of people are still signing up to the idea. To whose benefit?, asks Kathleen Nolan as she explores why this quick fundraising tool is not all it’s cracked up to be.

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Unstoppable: Celebrating Pride in central Istanbul on 30 June 2019, despite the ban on the event. Photo: Murad Sezer/Reuters/Alamy

‘As long as the world keeps running, we’ll be here’

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express themselves and build solidarity, writes Tuğçe Özbiçer.

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Slim pickings: goats wait to head out to graze in Alichur, a settlement of mainly Kyrghyz herders in the Pamir mountains. Photo: Fredrik Lerneryd

The dragon and the bear on the roof of the world

Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped by a power play between China and Russia. Klas Lundström reports.

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Slapped down

The rich and powerful are using ruinous lawsuits to target journalists and activists who hold them to account. Tina Burrett explores the threat.

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Banners wave at the opening ceremony of the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth near Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010. The People’s Agreement signed at the conference called for the Global North to repay a ‘climate debt’ to the Majority World. Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

A global just transition

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.

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Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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Indigenous spokesperson Lorena Bravo, wrapped in a Mapuche flag, looks towards a gas plant at Campo Maripe, a land claimed by her community, in Anelo, Neuquen province. Photo: Emiliano Lasalvia/AFP via Getty Images

The fracked earth

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Meanwhile the government offers sweetheart deals. Grace Livingstone reports.

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The new greenwashing

Faced with planetary catastrophe, Big Oil has applied boundless creativity, not to solving the climate crisis but to deflecting action. Nick Dowson dissects the corporate spin.

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The Dooh family on their lake in the Niger Delta which was devastated by an oil spill. The farming family won a case against Shell in the Netherlands, which took 13 years. Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Cut and run

Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

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Fossil fuels – a journey in time

From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.

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Top 5 oil producing and consuming countries (2020)

Big oil - the facts

New money is being poured into oil and gas despite the harm it causes to people and planet. With more than 1°C of global warming already, the time remaining to change course is short.

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Action & info

Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on how to stop big oil.

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Introducing... Yoon Suk-Yeol

The new ‘anti-politics’ president of South Korea.

Richard Swift May, 2022 537 Buy
Kyiv despatch

Report from Ukraine by Bennett Murray.

Bennett Murray May, 2022 537 Buy
Is it too late?

As climate change stretches human fragility towards breaking point, should we be preparing for societal collapse? This is the existential question behind ‘deep adaptation’, a theory that is rapidly gaining adherents. Richard Swift assesses how far, if anywhere, it will take us and what better paths we could go down.

Richard Swift May, 2022 537 Read
Please continue to not sponsor this child

It’s been 40 years since New Internationalist sounded the alarm on child sponsorship. But today thousands of people are still signing up to the idea. To whose benefit?, asks Kathleen Nolan as she explores why this quick fundraising tool is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Kathleen Nolan May, 2022 537 Buy
‘As long as the world keeps running, we’ll be here’

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express themselves and build solidarity, writes Tuğçe Özbiçer.

Tuğçe Özbiçer May, 2022 537 Buy
The dragon and the bear on the roof of the world

Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped by a power play between China and Russia. Klas Lundström reports.

Klas Lundström May, 2022 537 Buy
Slapped down

The rich and powerful are using ruinous lawsuits to target journalists and activists who hold them to account. Tina Burrett explores the threat.

Tina Burrett May, 2022 537 Buy
A global just transition

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.

Max Ajl May, 2022 537 Buy
Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

Nick Dowson May, 2022 537 Buy
The fracked earth

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Meanwhile the government offers sweetheart deals. Grace Livingstone reports.

Grace Livingstone May, 2022 537 Buy
The new greenwashing

Faced with planetary catastrophe, Big Oil has applied boundless creativity, not to solving the climate crisis but to deflecting action. Nick Dowson dissects the corporate spin.

Nick Dowson May, 2022 537 Buy
Cut and run

Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

Ken Henshaw May, 2022 537 Buy
Fossil fuels – a journey in time

From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.

May, 2022 537 Buy
Big oil - the facts

New money is being poured into oil and gas despite the harm it causes to people and planet. With more than 1°C of global warming already, the time remaining to change course is short.

May, 2022 537 Buy
Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on how to stop big oil.

May, 2022 537 Buy